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However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...
the strongest objection is to defend human composition by illustrating how equating the two are like comparing apples and oranges....
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...
a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...
In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...
must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...
In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....
In five pages Plato by Robert W. Hall is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...
all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...
and Socrates meander along the countryside, they talk about the various facets love harbors like heavenly passion all-important fr...
When his master died he began to wander and travel, as a pilgrim (Hermitary). After a few years of traveling it seems that a perso...
that this is "Her hardest hue to hold." The budding of plants at this time in the early spring is the shortest part of the seas...
American poets, whose poems sometimes evoke similar feelings in a reader, and at other times are completely dissimilar. This paper...
In five pages these philosophers' views on the physical elements of fire, water, earth, and air are contrasted and compared. Five...
In one page this essay discusses how to plan and promote a poetry night event on a college campus that includes a book signing and...